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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samclemens3991, post: 26573761, member: 82181&quot;][USER=13650]@Vess1[/USER].&nbsp; You can&#039;t really compare a coin like the Morgan to coins from the Seated era.&nbsp; They may overlap slightly, but the Morgan was a failed coin in it&#039;s day. I am not putting Morgans down, I think they are one of the most attractive coins America ever made, but experts tells us less than 2% of them ever saw the light of day.&nbsp; I can see how coins languishing in bank vaults , decade after decade, might have a vastly different appearance.&nbsp; We know some took patterns from the bags, some stayed basic white, while others bought the rainbow and everything in between.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Seated coins spent more than 5 decades as the recognized workhorse of the economy.&nbsp; They start out in an era where protecting coins , even if someone had any idea how to do that, would have been unheard of.&nbsp; The history of Seated coins is the history of America ; and america wasn&#039;t shrink wrapped during that period.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Barber coin is quite beautiful but yes, if there are tiny, rather glossy black specks on your coin, then at some point in time your coin was allowed to turn terminal black.&nbsp; One way to think of this, the terminal black was actually a coating that protected your coin from wear.&nbsp; It means for most of your coins life it was left unmolested.&nbsp; The coin dips, if done correctly, simply remove that dark black veil and reveal the beauty, detail and luster that was hiding beneath. james[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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